Increased Wages at Empire Knife Co Employees
Winsted June 22 Empire Knife Co raises piece work pay by 10 percent and 25 cents per day for others effective June 11. About one hundred workers benefit. Also noted is heavy rainfall causing damage to property and crops in northern New Hampshire. A Methodist church rally in Rochester featured N Howard speaking on The World On Fire and a local petition to Congress for national prohibition action.
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First Methodist Church
N. Howard
Rochester
Ion
Congress
Imm
Winsted
Empire Knife Co
New Hampshire
Train crashes into bus killing two in New Jersey
South River N J June 22 two men died and 11 were hurt when a Pennsylvania railroad train on the South Amboy to Jamesburg run crashed into a bus carrying workmen to the E I Dupont plant at Parlin.
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South River
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
South Amboy
Jamesburg
E. I. Dupont de Nemours
Parlin
A Historic Day for Zion's Hopes
The Jewish Morning Journal reports Allies plan for a Jewish independent state in Palestine after Rome conference. Italian army aid to British forces aims to secure Jerusalem as Palestine becomes a protected Holy Land under Allied alignment. British Board of Deputies resigns over anti Zionist manifesto amid Zionist victory.
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New York
Zion
New York Jewish Morning Journal
Washington
Palestine
Rome
Holy Land
Cairo
Port Said
Jerusalem
United States
Anglo-Jewish Committee
English Board of Jewish Deputies
Jewish Morning Journal
London
Board of Deputies
Conjoint Committee
Lord Rothschild
Ord Rothschild
Lucien Wolf
Abe
David Alexander
Herbert Samuel
Italian Films for Export on Increase
Rome reports rising Italian cinema exports to Britain with 117 520 kilos valued at 11 628 000 lire in 1912 and larger shipments in subsequent years. London film merchants visit to study Italian productions and buy works suited for UK markets. Italy imports more films than it exports, with Britain supplying 25 to 50 percent of imports.
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Rome
Italy
British Chamber of Commerce
Great Britain
London
United Kingdom
Liggett & Myers Gives $50,000 to Red Cross Fund
The Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. has contributed through its branches a $50,000 donation to the Red Cross fund.
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Liggeit & Myers Co
RED Cross Fund
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
The
Red Cross
Whitman Names a Military Artist
Albany reports Gov. Whitman appointed James Montgomery Flagg an official military artist for the state for the duration of the war. The funeral of Rev. Jeremian J. Curtin drew 125 priests from across the state, with complex rites and a sermon from Rev. J J Gurtie of New Haven. Seventy-nine Bowdoin College graduates were awarded degrees, while twenty eight were absent on war duty.
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Waterbury
Jeremian J. Curtin
Bowdoin College
Maine
Albany
James Montgomery Flagg
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America
Wilson
Bridgeport
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Howard
Empire CO
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Norfolk
Palm Beach
Madras
Men's Union Suits
Balbriggan Union
Ecru
Saving You
Father Curtin
Thomas Duggan
St. Josph’s
Cath Rai Statford
Burtai
New Britain
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